To be honest, I can't figure out a complete and logical story from the film, and I have no such intention, and even refuse to read articles about the interpretation of the plot.
For me, Tarkovsky's "Mirror" already has the ethereal, ambiguous and extremely personal qualities of dreams and poems. The director cut open his personal sincerity, what hides is his own past, his thoughts and his imagination, and at the moment I watch it, all his past, my thoughts and my imagination are all integrated into it. , is no longer what it used to be. Therefore, in order to ensure that such privatization is not further alienated (and the same is true of dreams, all the privatizations in it are difficult to be fully understood by others), multiple layers of elaboration will only turn the poem into a sticky mass of words.
The reason I like "Mirror" is also quite simple. It surprised me to realize that there is such a film of dream-like exploration. The transformation of the lens and the strange texture of the scene occasionally impact my short-term knowledge. Even when some scenes inexplicably generate a strong but anonymous emotion, and then try to recall what happened, only some vague images and scenes are found in my mind.
Isn't that what dreams are about? After waking up, inexplicable emotions are rolling in your heart, you will say as if "a piece is missing in your heart", as if there is a "bird dancing", but you just can't tell what emotion it is, happy? sad? Lost? We who have lost the figurative scene in our dreams seem to have lost part of the description function and cannot speak well in words. This state is probably a bit similar to the stuttering boy at the beginning of the film.
Another characteristic of dreams is that they disappear quickly after waking up, so I choose to write down the text quickly after reading it, and in the process of writing, the disappearance is also gradually going on. Gradually fade, we can also call it "memory", but the "memory" of dreams is particularly unstable.
If someone sees what I've written and thinks it's disorganized and full of nonsense, that's not wrong, for me it's just such a thing, a rambling, private outpouring of personal emotion.
Wake up, goodbye!
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